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Gauge Clusters


vietxxxtasy
12-23-2003, 05:40 PM
I have a prelude '98 automotice with 97,000 miles on it. I find this gauge prelude '99 automatic gauge cluster that only has 64,000 miles on it. If i relpace my gauge cluster with the other gauge cluster will my car read 64,000 miles?

Ricochet
12-23-2003, 06:43 PM
Yes.

PaulD
12-24-2003, 08:45 AM
yep, it's also illegal - especially if you are gonna sell it. If you never sell it, no one will ever know

CrXb18c1
12-24-2003, 08:22 PM
actually how do they know if you have the 64,000 miles istead of 97,000 miles?will the insurance company know? or the cops?

Spectre927
12-24-2003, 10:04 PM
Odometer Rollback is stupid. Everytime you do something like service or smog your car and they register the mileage, if it doesnt add up, then they'll know. Cant you have it adjusted though?

CrXb18c1
12-25-2003, 02:29 AM
Oh reallly>>i dont know anything about that..when i bought a Crx ..my mileage is low but the engine is fucked up and i have to put around 2 bottles of old into the engine every week

Jetts
12-25-2003, 02:32 AM
have fun in federal bang me in the ass prision (great qoute off one of my fav. movies)

Spectre927
12-26-2003, 12:45 AM
Oh reallly>>i dont know anything about that..when i bought a Crx ..my mileage is low but the engine is fucked up and i have to put around 2 bottles of old into the engine every week

2 bottles of OLD? well theres your problem....:icon16:

Ace$nyper
12-26-2003, 12:49 PM
Rofl!

asterox
01-27-2004, 01:41 PM
1 word: carfax

Volume_Civics
03-02-2004, 01:53 PM
I put a new cluster in my civ, it had* 60 tho miles more then my orginal but i just rolled the odemeter sprocket. I'm not sure if you can make it go forward.

i_a_n112784
03-02-2004, 07:56 PM
Just change the odometer in the new gauge cluster with the one from the old gauge cluster. Nice and legal, no rolling back to deal with.

And yes, it is SERIOUS trouble to roll back sell a car with an odometer that doesn't show the real milage. The dealerships record milage at every service that car has had, along with when your car gets emission tested, some insurance companies want the milage.....WAY too many ways to get caught doing that.

Ricochet
03-02-2004, 09:36 PM
unless you change your own oil and do all the work yourself :)

This is putting evil thoughts in my head..

i_a_n112784
03-03-2004, 09:18 AM
You're missing the point. There are many ways of finding out. The department that deals with car registration (states have different names for it) records milage every time you get a new plate, transfer title, so right there you're screwed. The only way you can alter your milage would be to disconnect the odometer after you let the car get somewhere around 1000 miles on it (they tend to round up to the 1000's when recording it). Then when you go to sell it or get it serviced, you need to reconnect it.

As many ways as there are to trace it back to you, given that someone wanted to, its not worth it for the couple hundred dollars you could make when selling it.

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